Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Burke was hanged in front of a crowd possibly as large as 25.000; views from windows in the tenements overlooking the scaffold were hired at prices ranging from 5 to 20 shillings. Burke's skeleton was given to the Anatomical Museum of the Edinburgh Medical School where it remains. His death mask and a book said to be bound with his tanned skin can be seen at Surgeons' Hall Museum.
(28 January 1829)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3386 births, 3952 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5739 people in 6452 places until today.

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Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa.

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Sunday 3rd of January 1892 (+) — Writer, poet, philologist and university professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is born.
Friday 13th of November 1970 (-) — Murderess Maria Groesbeek is executed by hanging.
“My husband wouldn’t give me a divorce, so I poisoned him with arsenic,” Groesbeek told police when they came to arrest her.